130 bucks sounds like a pretty good price for a windshield. I know at the auction we charge 210 for Fords and 155 for Gms and we get a discount on them. When you son does go to register his car have him look into getting the “vintage specialty plates” for it. The first year he registers his car it will be subject to the normal fees and taxes but, every year after that they are only 10 bucks to renew and he will no longer has to have safety inspections or emissions done on the vehicle. I have them on my SS and all I had to do this year when I renewed them was hand over 10 bucks. Pretty cool!! They do have a restriction on them that car can’t be used for everyday use. I use the SS as daily driver (cept in the winter when I drive the beater Toyota) and I’ve never been bothered by the cops. I’m pretty sure they have better things to do. This is off of the DMV’s website………….

“This plate identifies a vehicle at least 30 years old, is primarily a collector's item, and used for participation in club activities, exhibitions, tours, parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but is not used for general daily transportation. This plate may be personalized with up to 5 alphanumeric characters by submitting Form TC-817 with the required personalization fee.

Requirements

$10 Special Plate Fee
No Annual Contribution
Identifiable into one of two categories:

30 year vintage vehicles: 30-39 years old
40 year vintage vehicles: 40 years and older”


The law is so vague that even if you did get pulled over there are a million ways to get out of ticket.

Anyway, good luck on the car and keep me posted on it’s progress and let me know if I can help with anything else.

Happy to help Stay tuned, I'll be starting on some body work pretty soon here so I'll be providing some information on that too.

Ahh alittle bondo.When I was younger I helped paint a few cars and trucks. And I was a industrial painter for about 6 years. Not your adverage girl I guess.I also learned to use a bansaw, a router,a duz awl,a sander and a paint gun of course. Im just mad now cause I didnt learn to weld. Oh and I was a supervisor for 17 years and learn other people to do all this. But as I got older I sort of lost all this stuff. I guess I got a little more lady like. I remember once when I was married I would pull my z-28 in the garage and I would look around and see how messy my husband garage was. So one day I took it on myself the make little curtains for his garage to cover all the carburators and tools and car parts. OMG he about blew a blood vessel. He said what if the other guys come over here and see these little curtains.They will see nudie pics and little curtains. I said well they will all be jelous and want me to come to their house and put some in their garage too. He said no they wont !!!!!!!! He said from this day forward everything in the garage belongs to me and everything in the house belongs to you. You pull your car in you pull your car out you pull your car in you pull your car out. Dont look at anything dont touch anything. Geessshhhhhhhh I went to work and told the girl we laughted so hard we had tears coming out of our eyes. Men their so touchy. Dont they like curtains ?

You can use any soap and any towel you want at my house. But, stay out of my garage...

I know how to fix everything myself. I would never ask. And I would never expect. I would be grateful and appreciative of anything that is volunteered.

That is what seventeen years of being single does to you. I don't think it is a bad thing.

I am not a hoity toity princess now and I never have been. I might hope for sex occasionally tho...

I probably should clarify. That would be anyone that might potentially share my home (or my garage) somewhere down the road...

BTW, I saw the cutest old truck sitting in my daughter's neighborhood this morning. It looked like the owner was about halfway through with the required body work.

I heard there was a really cool car show happening in Moab this weekend. Sorry I missed it. But one of my friends is going down in his firebird. Dang that would of been fun

Ahhh that too bad. Its only money and you only live once. I dont look at things from the money part. I look at things from a different point of veiw. If it something that a person wants to do very badly and if I was in a relationship. I would try my hardest to make it happen. Money isnt everything people are. And life is too short to miss out on any little part of it. But I'll be looking for the show list.

Well tiger, if I was our federal government I could say “its only money” and get me a nice place once I got to Moab with a hot tub and hookers on the taxpayers dime but, it being “my” money and having to live on a budget like most of us do. It’s not as simple as just spending a couple of hundred dollars on gas. You have entrance fees, probably want to spend the night, eat something, ect. so, the show could cost me up to 500 bucks and that’s 500 bucks I’d prefer putting into the car at this point in time. On top of that you always have to worry about some catastrophic failer happing during the drive. One guy I do shows with lost his brand new 15,000 dollar engine due to a coolant leak coming over the point of the mountain coming back from show in Orem. I had pretty much the same thing happen to me with an oil pressure problem in my ’69 440 Charger coming back from Wendover one night. Sure, taking road trips are a lot of fun but, you still have to factor in all costs and the risks associated with them as well.

I think this is one we will have to agree to disagree on tiger. I think whoever said “its only money” was someone spending someone elses.

I just looked at the car shows up this way. Guess I wont be able to make it. I'll be in Vegas. I guess I'll just look forward to the car show in Wendover in June. So have fun everyone. Come out and enjoy these beautiful cars. They are amazing. Get off the computer and have alittle fun in your life. Thank you SK for posting these events. You really make a difference in peoples lives

I belong to NECOA (National El Camino Owners Association) Gramz. It’s a lot like the Corvette Club of America and as the name suggests is a national organization. I was asked to be a “regional director” at one time but when I inquired what that entailed I never heard back from them? I don’t think they are very well organized and have never attended any of their events. Locally, I hang out with a lot of guys from the “Imperials” car club and I’ve been asked to join them but as of yet I haven’t gotten around to it.

Speaking of stories of loud cars like Tigers brothers Pro Stocker after I got the new engine back in my ’69 Charger I hadn’t yet put exhaust or mufflers on it and was running “open headers” and it was so loud I decided to have it towed up to the muffler shop rather than drive it. When I went to pick up after the exhaust work had been completed on it the guy that ran the shop (Main Street Muffler. Great place but pricy) told me when they pulled it into one of the bays stuff started vibrating off the walls and shelves. I think I still owe them for a wall clock? Even with the new exhaust on it I had the cops called on me more than once for having it running while I tinkered with it on weekends. Still, the funniest thing happened one day when I went to Crossroads Mall downtown and parked in their underground parking. As I was leaving I started to notice all these cars alarms where going off and thought to myself how strange that was until I realized it was my car that was setting them all off. That was…………. well

Gotta love a big block


Thanks again gramz and Tiger for your intrest, support, and time. Now lets all go out there and have fun!!!

Theres some really bad stuff going on in this forum tonight and it really makes me sad to see it. I hope everyone can over come these problems and we can all become good friends.

God thats alot of work. I know I painted a big old chevy truck once red with pearl paint. OMG god that was hard. If Hill Field wouldnt of put a freeze on hiring years ago. I would of been painting airplanes for Lockheed Martin. I was on my way in the door and the big old goverment put their big foot in my way.

Ya you have a point there. I guess you cant go into any mans garage without a calendra or two. Men sheeesh